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Letters to Atticus, Volume IV

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The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations and convictions and his reactions to what is happening in Rome. These letters also provide a vivid picture of a momentous period in Roman history, years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic.When the correspondence begins in November 68 BC, the 38-year-old Cicero is a notable figure in Rome: a brilliant lawyer and orator, he has achieved primacy at the Roman bar and a political career that would culminate in the consulship in 63. Over the next twenty-four years-until November 44, a year before he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony-Cicero wrote frequently to his friend and confidant, sharing news and views and discussing affairs of business and state. It is to this corpus of over 400 letters that we owe most of our information about Cicero's literary activity. Here too is a revealing picture of the staunch republican's changing attitude toward Caesar. And taken as a whole the letters provide a first-hand account of social and political life in Rome.D. R. Shackleton Bailey's authoritative edition and translation of the Letters to Atticus is a revised version of his Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries edition, with full explanatory notes.

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D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.

Product details

Authors Cicero
Assisted by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Editor and translation)
Publisher Harvard University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.1999
 
EAN 9780674995406
ISBN 978-0-674-99540-6
No. of pages 464
Dimensions 110 mm x 170 mm x 25 mm
Series Loeb classical library
Cicero
Subjects Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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